Snapping Shoals El Member Corp

What This Utility Data Tells You

Snapping Shoals El Member Corp is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in Georgia under EIA identifier 17832. It reports service to approximately 106,972 customer accounts and generated about $0.23 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 21 ZIP codes. As a cooperative, its governance is accountable to its ratepayer-members rather than shareholders, which often shapes rate-setting and reinvestment priorities.

In 2023, the average Snapping Shoals El Member Corp customer experienced 550.6 minutes of power interruptions, the industry-standard SAIDI metric (System Average Interruption Duration Index). Excluding major weather events from that total, that keeps this utility below the typical 120–180 minute national benchmark, consistent with a well-hardened distribution system and fast restoration crews. SAIFI, the average number of outage events per customer, was 1.58 for the same period, so customers statistically faced roughly 2 distinct interruptions that year. Excluding major event days (hurricanes, ice storms), SAIDI drops to 94.5 minutes, the gap between that figure and the headline 550.6 reveals how much weather, not day-to-day infrastructure, drove outages.

Snapping Shoals El Member Corp has 4 years of continuous EIA reporting on file (2020–2023), enough to read a real trend rather than a single-year snapshot. Over that span, SAIDI rose from 155.8 to 550.6 minutes, possibly reflecting tougher weather years or grid upgrades that have not caught up yet.